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Bobbie Nelson and her long-running career served as an inspiration for Amanda Shires. This album is a collection of songs the duo have played and treasured their entire lives.

The new self-titled album from singer-songwriter-producer Zach Bryan is an expansive yet intimate 16-track set that explores the Grammy-nominated artist's Oklahoma roots as well as his vast and varied confluence of musical and literary influences.

"Erin Hahn's Friends Don't Fall in Love is about long-time friends, taking chances, and finding out that, sometimes, your perfect person was right there in your corner all along. Lorelai Jones had it all: a thriving country music career and a superstar fiancae. Then she played one teenie tiny protest song at a concert and ruined her entire future, including her impending celebrity marriage. But five years later, she refuses to be done with her dreams...

The music on Deeper Well, the seven-time Grammy winner's fifth album, is almost chimeric. Rolling acoustic guitars, puffy clouds of strings and synth, warm bass punctuations, layered harmonies, moments of Celtic melody, and plenty of room on the tracks for Musgraves's silvery vocals. On the bright, almost folky title track, the 30-something songstress surveys her life and priorities, recognizing what feeds her and drains her, and even examines the...